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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!newspump.sol.net!www.nntp.primenet.com!nntp.primenet.com!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!irz401!orion.sax.de!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Tape Backup help Date: 18 Oct 1996 23:47:50 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 24 Message-ID: <5494v6$c8@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <53cjo1$9nf@scipio.cyberstore.ca> <53itmk$bi0@yama.mcc.ac.uk> <53nuu9$8p4@uriah.heep.sax.de> <540abr$8ju@yama.mcc.ac.uk> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E ip@mcc.ac.uk (Ian Pallfreeman) wrote: > Incidentally, the "fix" for partitions > 2Gb in FreeBSD is the most cunning > one I've seen so far. Whoever had that idea: have a virtual beer on me. :-) This one? (for traverse.c) revision 1.3 date: 1995/06/24 17:07:21; author: joerg; state: Exp; lines: +4 -2 When using dump/rdump on large filesytems (my case 3 GB), the lseek claims multiple times to have failed. The problem is a off_t is converted into a int and checked for a negative. A true lseek check should be checking if the off_t is equal to -1 for failure. (Suggested fix from PR #bin/461) Submitted by: mark tinguely <tinguely@opus.cs.ndsu.NoDak.edu> -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)